A crime wave is gripping the sleepy town of Apple-Morepone. Then "Rainbow" Dash of the City Watch meets a batpony (adopted) named Carrot. The town will never be the same. (An homage to the City Watch of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels!)

Sunset Shimmer has been acting sort of strange recently—enough that Twilight Sparkle has started to notice. And even though the rest of the girls doubt anything’s wrong, Twilight is determined to find out what’s up.

Home. A place of warmth, safety, familiarity and a haven from the rain and cold. Home... Water drips down the dank, mouldy walls of the sewer, while the rats gnaw and scurry in the shadows. How did it come to this?

A dystopian Equestria is an unpleasant sight. The air is heavy with pollution, foals work in factories, guards watch everything. Dystopian rulers over see all, making the weak cower and the strong vanish.

It turns out that Sunset Shimmer's final letters to Princess Celestia before her exile were not filled with resentment or remorse. There might have been a lot more frantic running away involved. But it was definitely not Sunset's fault. At all.

Twilight and her orphaned niece are starting a new life in a new town, as far from Flurry Heart's monster of a grandfather as they can get. But as far as you might run, you can't run away from you. Especially when magic's involved.

Josh "Xploshun" Daniels thinks his life as an electronic music artist is perfect. But one day, he is transported to the magical world of Equestria, where he learns that not all that glitters is gold, and he questions whether or not he wants